GOP Race Tightens Up Heading Into Super Tuesday, AP Tries to Minimize Polls on Romney

Mitt Romney is doing his best to get conservatives who disagree with John McCain to polls. In the latest polls on California a Reuters/CSpan/Zogby result put Romney up by 8 points. Rasmussen has them tied.

This must come to the chagrin of the incompetent reporters over at the Associated Press because they are reporting that news as follows:

While normally eschewing poll results, Romney cited one unnamed survey he said showed him leading in California, and another he said confirmed a neck-and-neck race in Georgia.

“It’s a very tight race. A lot of people said it’s just going to be, you know, a very easy race for Senator McCain. But you know what’s happened? Across the country, conservatives have come together and they say, you know what? We don’t want Senator McCain; we want a conservative,” Romney said Monday at the Pancake Pantry in downtown Nashville.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in introducing Romney: “We know that a lot of freedom-loving, flag-waving people are going to find their way to the polls on Tuesday.”

It took two Associated Press writers to come up with that paragraph. Apparently GLEN JOHNSON and LIBBY QUAID aren’t competent enough or don’t have the skills to enter Real Clear Politics into their browser and see a comparison of state wide polls. Seriously, is there anyone out there who reads reports from the Associated Press without holding their nose?

The polls that the Romney Campaign tout are the same polls that mainstream media salivates over whenever they feed their undying need to ingratiate themselves with anything that leans toward their liberal biases. Yet those big polls go unnamed here as if the Romney campaign made them up.

This doesn’t mean that Romney doesn’t have a steep hill to climb. The conventional wisdom still has him trailing across the board as do most polls. But I am not conventional by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, I am a math guy and love to research the polls from the inside out. But polls have been iffy as of late. However the exit polls are quite compelling and they pretty much tell me what I have known all along about the candidates. John Mccain gets the vote of people that don’t necessarily represent the party base, the same base that sat out in 2006 to the detriment of the GOP.

I don’t like people telling me what to think, who to vote for or which candidates share my views. Worse however I don’t like to be told that I should just convince myself that John McCain is the better conservative simply because he has a tendency to court the left to the detriment of the conservative base. Isn’t it strange that conservatives are always told to compromise (i.e. concede) their values and beliefs in the name of unity and bi-partisan togetherness. Yet when I look at the Democrats I see them embracing religion, half of the two remaining candidates have a confused and somewhat disingenuous stance on Iraq and divisive politics of race and gender is being fought out on the left contrary to the “conventional wisdom” that tries to portray conservatives in ill light on those issues. Even the issue of gay marriage is something that has taken a back seat for the Democrats, wonder why.

Whenever the mainstream media tells me that I should believe one thing I always double check and ask why? Why does the media love John McCain so much? What is it that they see that I don’t? I pretty much know the answer, immigration, stem cells, original stance on Bush Tax cuts, gang of 14, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. What, you think that John McCain will change his stance on these issues? Sure, he is flipping on the Bush Tax Cuts but we aren’t supposed to talk about the other issues.

Will I vote for McCain over Obama or Clinton? You bet. Will this be a good thing for the Republican Party? Doubtful. The message that conservatives have been sending to the Republican Party is that it’s time for a change, it’s time to stand up for issues that the base is excited about and John McCain has stood on the opposite of that fence for too long IMHO.

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